On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 05:32:59PM +0200, gilligan wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 22:51 -0400, Benji Fisher wrote:
> <snip>
> > In what way is it not working?
> >
> > If you are compiling your own version of vim after getting used to
> > someone else's distribution, you may be missing a system vimrc file that
> > was included in the distribution. In particular, try
> >
> > :set backspace=indent,eol,start
> > :help 'backspace'
> >
> > HTH --Benji Fisher
>
> Well I should be a bit more elaborate on this I guess :
> backspace works as expected as long as I am working on the same line and
> don't use the arrow keys or end the line with <CR>. When I do that and I
> move back to the line backspace has just no effect at all.
That is what I thought, which is why I suggested that you read
:help 'backspace'
HTH --Benji Fisher
